leskit 's review for:

Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce

5.0

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I read the graphic novel adaptation of this book to a 3rd grade class. I brought my copy of the book in to show them the original novel and they asked me to read it to them. I was very impressed with how much they enjoyed a somewhat old fashioned book. It doesn't have a lot of action and the children in the book are so far removed from what my students experience. It's almost a little difficult to read out loud because the language structure is a little different. But they did enjoy it very much and decided they liked the novel better than the graphic novel because there were a lot more details in the novel. I appreciated their response to the book. I didn't expect them to like it as much as they did.